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Rene Denfeld - The Enchanted

Monday, March 10, 2014 - 7:00pm

The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes
of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining
life around him, weaving a fantastical story of the people he observes
and the world he inhabits. Fearful and reclusive, he senses what others
cannot. Though bars confine him every minute of every day, he marries
magical visions of golden horses running beneath the prison, heat
flowing like molten metal from their backs, with the devastating
violence of prison life.
Two outsiders venture here: a fallen priest, and the Lady, an
investigator who searches for buried information from prisoners' pasts
that can save those soon-to-be-executed. Digging into the background of a
killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge
familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, honor and
corruption-ultimately revealing shocking secrets of her own.
Beautiful and transcendent, The Enchanted ($25.99) reminds us of how our humanity
connects us all, and how beauty and love exist even amidst the most
nightmarish reality.

Rene Denfeld
is an internationally bestselling author, journalist, Mitigation
Specialist, and fact Investigator in death penalty cases. She has
written for the New York Times Magazine, the Oregonian, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, and is a published author of four books including the international bestseller The New Victorians: A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order; Kill The Body, The Head Will Fall; and All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families.